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Various people, mostly for religious or philosophical reasons were against it, and not only the abolishinists in the North. Only one-quarter of families in Southern slave states owned slaves. John Brown, the most famous (or infamous) opponent of slavery was a Calvinst who as a young man had seen a slave cruelly beaten, and the experience marked him to the end of his life.

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